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Welcome Back!

Welcome back to campus and to the 2024-25 academic year, with a special welcome to first-year students and newly declared majors and minors! I’m delighted to greet you in my role as new department chair.

Senior Spotlights: Rebecca Radillo

“Raising High & Saying Goodbye: Rebecca Radillo is a graduating senior majoring in English. She currently has an internship with TheDailyFandom.org where she writes on pop culture with an academic lens–she already has an article published analyzing Doctor Strange through an Orientalist and disability lens. She will be attending Boston College in the fall for […]

Professor Spotlight: Patricia Chu

Professor and Deputy Chair of English Patricia Chu published her book Where I Have Never Been: Migration, Melancholia, and Memory in Asian American Narratives of Return (Temple, 2019) just last Fall! Her book provides valuable insight into the narratives of diasporic Asians, as their offspring travel to Asia to reclaim their heritage. Where I Have Never Been “reframes […]

PhD Student Spotlight: Joanna Falk

What is the subject of your dissertation and how did you decide what your topic would be? My dissertation is about paratexts – all the stuff that’s not technically part of the “main” text but that serves to present it in some way. Titles are paratexts, as are introductions, footnotes, endnotes, appendices, etc. More specifically, I […]

E.L. Doctorow to Read Thursday in Funger 108

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E.L. Doctorow will visit with students and then give a public reading Thursday. On April 7, the English Department will be hosting …

Recent Graduate Student Accomplishments

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Mark DeCicco won the award for best graduate paper at the recent meeting of the International Association for the Fantastic in the …

GW Student Marissa Ciampi’s Poem Selected for Website

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Poet Claudia Rankine included a poem by GW student Marissa Ciampi on her website. Recently Prof. Gregory Pardlo posted a piece here …

Kudos for 2 Faculty Award Winners

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to Prof. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, recipient of a highly competitive American Council of Learned Societies Grant for 2011-12. to Prof. Thomas Mallon, …

MEMSI Conference Afterthoughts: “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral”

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A packed crowd listens to Jane Bennett’s keynote address at the recent GW MEMSI conference. GW MEMSI hosted an extraordinary conference March …

“Modern-day Jane Austen” to read Thursday at 7 p.m.

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Allegra Goodman Novelist Allegra Goodman will be reading at the Marvin Center Amptitheater at 7 p.m. on Thursday as a part of …